Turkeys Can Drive a Person to Drink...or Pull Your Hair Out!

Every Spring I tell myself that I'm not going to become obsessed with chasing turkeys...Drats...I failed again! It started out in Kansas on public land with my bow. I had 6 good chances to connect with a turkey gobbler and failed miserably on every attempt! Of course this made my turkey chasing become an obsession of the worst degree...the turkeys are gobbling constantly in my head! I went out this weekend for the Colorado Spring opener to 6 inches of snow on both Saturday and again on Sunday...this is nothing of a surprise to me because it seems to happen every single year! I didn't hear a peep in the turkey woods...some one forgot to tell the birds that it's breeding season! I have until the end of May to fill my tag in Kansas, but I suspect that I'll end up eating tag soup as usual! I love being out in the wilds listening to the world awaken around me! Being in the great outdoors is better than being any where else...birds or no birds! I'll be back this Thursday (somewhere)...until then!

Sangre De Cristo Mountains and Colorado Turkeys

My friend Tim Schoenborn and I headed to Southern Colorado to scout for turkeys and hang out at my cabin for the day yesterday. Tim is a world famous Equine Photographer (Check out Tim's Site Here)...the below photos were all taken by Tim.



Doc Holiday
Sangre De Cristo Turkey Country

Animated Ellie

My Home Waters...the Arkansas River

Sticks & Stones

I just returned from Kansas archery turkey hunting. It was the most exciting hunt I've ever had! I had several long beards strutting and drumming in front of my blind...even had hens pecking at my decoy and being bred by huge turkey gobblers...but never connected with one! I spent 30 plus hours in the blind over 4 days...I can't hardly wait until next April first...I'll be back for a re-match!

Notice the cut in my blind in this photo! The blind saved a nice long beard's life!